Carl Stearns Clancy

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Clancy circled the world on a 1912 Henderson motorcycle

Carl Stearns Clancy (born August 8, 1890 in Epping, Rockingham County , New Hampshire , † January 1971 in Alexandria , Virginia ) was an American author, director, film producer and adventurer. Together with Walter Storey, he made the first circumnavigation of the world on a motorcycle.

Life

Carl Clancy's father was from Ireland and his mother from Massachusetts . Carl grew up in Massachusetts, worked as a copywriter, married in California in 1916, and later moved to New York. From 1922 to 1928 he was the director and producer of 13 films with Will Rogers and wrote screenplays. He also wrote two non-fiction books.

In the autumn of 1912 he announced in the magazine Bicycle World and Motorcycle Review that he would go around the world on a motorcycle for the first time with Walter Storey. The journey lasted ten months and covered a distance of 18,000 miles from Philadelphia via Dublin through Africa, Asia via Hawaii back to the USA and ended in New York. For the trip, Clancy and Storey used two Henderson motorcycles with 8 hp.

Works

Movies

Clancy has appeared in 19 films:

  • The Adventures of Julian Raindrop (1948), as a director
  • Kingdom of the Wild (1947), as a director
  • Over the Bounding Blue with Will Rogers (1928), as a producer and director
  • Reeling Down the Rhine with Will Rogers (1928), as a producer and director
  • Exploring England with Will Rogers (1927), as a producer and director
  • Winging Around Europe with Will Rogers (1927), as a producer a
  • Prowling Around France with Will Rogers (1927), as a producer and director
  • Roaming the Emerald Isle with Will Rogers (1927), as a producer and director
  • With Will Rogers in London (1927), as a producer and director
  • Through Switzerland and Bavaria with Will Rogers (1927), as producer and director
  • Hunting for Germans in Berlin with Will Rogers (1927), as producer and director
  • With Will Rogers in Paris (1927), as a producer and director
  • Hiking Through Holland with Will Rogers (1927), as a producer and director
  • With Will Rogers in Dublin (1927), as a producer and director
  • Churchyards of Old America (1926), as a producer
  • The Headless Horseman (1922), as a producer
  • The Adventurous Sey (1925), as a screenwriter
  • Six Cylinder Love (1923), as a screenwriter
  • The Headless Horseman (1922), as a screenwriter

Books

  • "The Viking Ship" (1927)
  • "The Saga of Leif Ericsson, Discoverer of America" ​​(1956)

literature

  • Gregory W. Frazier: Motorcycle Adventurer Carl Stearns Clancy: First Motorcyclist to Ride Around the World 1912–1913. Bloomington 2010, ISBN 978-1-4502-2141-2

Individual evidence

  1. ^ G. Frazier: Adventures to Gidle the Globe . Motorcycle USA, July 14, 2011

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Clancy, Carl Stearns
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer, director, film producer and adventurer
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Epping, Rockingham County
DATE OF DEATH January 1971
Place of death Alexandria